Do not try to absorb, WS. Your own issues are more than enough to bear. What would really be useful to all of us, including you, would be bundling them all up and nuking them from orbit. Sigh. I hate seeing their toxicity make so many excellent people so deeply miserable.
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
JZ - Jun 22, 2013 5:00:12 am PDT #1215 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Pix - Jun 22, 2013 5:30:23 am PDT #1216 of 30002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I'm about to get into a Twitter smack down with a guy I don't know who commented on my repost of the article about the AMA's decision to classify obesity as a disease (I.e. something many people cannot control due to genetics). His snide comment was that it was "just more excuses for weak-minded people." Wow, random Twitter asshat. Wow. Way to speak from a place of privilege.
Laura - Jun 22, 2013 5:46:37 am PDT #1217 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Weak-minded is clearly appropriate. Attitudes are changing, but there will always be clueless idiots.
Pix - Jun 22, 2013 5:48:11 am PDT #1218 of 30002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
He is clearly close-minded, that's for sure.
Strix - Jun 22, 2013 6:38:24 am PDT #1219 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
"So, what's your excuse for your weak-minded perspective? OH -- genetics! Sorry about that low IQ, man. It's not your fault..."
javachik - Jun 22, 2013 6:55:50 am PDT #1220 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Twitter is full of trolls. Just block and move on. It's not your responsibility to educate people who are searching for people to argue with.
omnis_audis - Jun 22, 2013 6:58:09 am PDT #1221 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Twitter is full of trolls. Just block and move on. It's not your responsibility to educate people who are searching for people to argue with.I think you could say "the internet" and not limit it to just Twitter. Don't feed the troll. Not worth the PepcidAC.
Strix - Jun 22, 2013 6:59:56 am PDT #1222 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Feeding the trolls would be a full-time job. Sometimes, very rarely, someone says something so egregious I think my head will pop off my neck if I don't say something.
VERY. RARELY. Learned that lesson back in the Salon days...
sj - Jun 22, 2013 8:13:37 am PDT #1223 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We are driving an hour and twenty minutes today to see Much Ado! And then we're stopping at a brewpub for dinner because TCG is awesome for constantly indulging his fannish wife and deserves beer.
Sean, tons of job~ma and interview~ma to you.
Aims, so much ~ma for Emeline's friend. How awful.
le nubian - Jun 22, 2013 8:30:53 am PDT #1224 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Omnis, while you are right that the whole Internet is a problem at least I can control my community. In twitter you have to be a bit more aggressive about controlling your own space. It feels liberating when you get the hang of it. You mean I can block someone? Or put the person on mute for a day? I can just not reply if I don't want to?
I can put the person on a list and read them when I want?